{"id":90027,"date":"2024-09-16T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=90027"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:47:28","slug":"old-man-asks-son-to-take-him-to-nursing-home-as-opposed-to-living-with-his-family-story-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/old-man-asks-son-to-take-him-to-nursing-home-as-opposed-to-living-with-his-family-story-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Asks Son to Take Him to Nursing Home as Opposed to Living with His Family \u2013 Story of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald had to move in with his son Peter after his house burned. But he started to think he was burdening his child because they stayed out late every night. Therefore, the older man decided to move into a nursing home. But his son had the most beautiful surprise in store.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cI\u2019m telling you, Donald. Your son will lose his marbles soon and will ask you to move. It\u2019s better to be proactive and find something else on your own before that happens, and your relationship suffers,\u201d Donald heard Mary say once again. She&rsquo;d been talking about that since they started drinking tea on his son\u2019s porch.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald Harper\u2019s house burned down two months ago while he was at the supermarket, and he suffered a heart attack when he got home. He was taken to the hospital, and his son, Peter, and his wife had insisted on moving him with them when he recovered. But they were a couple in their 30s with three young kids, and now they had to handle an older man in their home.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90034 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/09e1577dd4b089ba7e60a0b946e69eb1.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"992\"' height='\"661\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/09e1577dd4b089ba7e60a0b946e69eb1.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald had been worried about being a burden for a while, but they insisted that they loved having him around, and the grandkids were always happy to hear his stories. But Peter\u2019s neighbor, Mary, who was around Donald\u2019s age, had been telling him otherwise.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cYou think Peter and his wife are too polite to tell me to move?\u201d Donald wondered, his right hand holding the teacup to his lips and sipping slowly.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Mary did the same while nodding her head vehemently. \u201cOf course! It happened to me, and I was only with my daughter for three weeks. She blamed me for everything that went wrong. She said that I was too loud in the mornings and causing her electric bill to go up. My house was only getting fumigated, but I swear, I wanted to just return home,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe haven\u2019t talked to each other in a while because of that.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald hummed and nodded, thinking that Mary might be right. Obviously, his son was way more polite because they didn\u2019t have one bad word to say about Donald at all.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He also noticed that Peter and his wife, Sandra, were coming home later and later each day. He was happy to watch the kids for them, but maybe, he thought, they were unhappy to see him in their house. He decided it might be time to move.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The older man pulled his son aside that night when he got home and suggested moving him to a nursing home, but Peter said they should revisit that conversation later. \u201cDad now is not the time for that. We\u2019ll talk about it later.\u201d\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90033 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/4230e2c0de26c8b4fd9cce11a4380f03.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"992\"' height='\"661\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/4230e2c0de26c8b4fd9cce11a4380f03.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Several months went by, and Donald was worried. Peter and his wife looked exhausted every time they got home, although they always smiled for him. He had not talked about the nursing home subject again, but it was time to try once more. He had enough savings to pay for a decent assisted-living residence, so it would not be awful.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He had even gone online to search for places, and there was one nearby in their neighborhood in Chesapeake, Virginia, which was only a few minutes away from Peter\u2019s house. He had printed the information and was ready to show it to Peter.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cOk, Dad. Let\u2019s go and visit it tomorrow,\u201d Peter agreed that night, and Donald was relieved. Mary had been harping again about his extended stay, and Donald was worried that it would ruin his bond with his son and the family.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>So the following morning, Donald got into the passenger seat of Peter\u2019s car, and they started driving towards the nursing home he suggested. For some reason, Peter took several turns, and Donald frowned. \u201cAre you sure this is the right way? I feel like you\u2019re going to circle back to your house,\u201d the older man told his son.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cOh, don\u2019t worry, Dad. We have to pick up something first from 7Eleven,\u201d Peter replied, his hands moving the wheel and his eyes focused on the road.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90032 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/3be62e2b0ea5ce27be2356548bcf3238.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"768\"' height='\"1152\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/3be62e2b0ea5ce27be2356548bcf3238.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald nodded and thought nothing of it. He picked up the paperwork he had printed and read aloud some of the benefits listed on the nursing home\u2019s website.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He concentrated so hard on reading that he didn\u2019t notice when Peter stopped the car. \u201cOh, get me a bag of chips, please,\u201d Donald said absentmindedly.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cWe\u2019re not at the 7Eleven, Dad. Look up,\u201d Peter chimed in. Donald raised his head and looked at his son, who gestured towards the passenger side&rsquo;s window. The older man turned and realized they were on his old street right in front of his house.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The last image he remembered of that place had been pure ashes and pain. He had bought that house with his wife, and that\u2019s where they raised Peter. The surprise of seeing it gone after a massive short-circuit in the kitchen had been too much for his older heart.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90031 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/027b9beb0888a56170e18f584c70ce8e.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"992\"' height='\"661\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/027b9beb0888a56170e18f584c70ce8e.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>But the image he saw now was nothing like he remembered. The house was back in shape. It was completely remodeled. Donald raised his eyebrows at his son. \u201cNo, you didn\u2019t,\u201d he whispered.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cOf course, I did. Well, we did. Sandra worked to find the best budgets out there,\u201d Peter added with a huge smile on his face.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cThat\u2019s too much money, Peter. Let me pay you back,\u201d Donald said as tears started gathering in his eyes.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>\u201cAbsolutely not. Did you think I would let my father live in a nursing home? I don\u2019t know where you got that crazy idea. Besides, you and Mom raised me in that house. We absolutely can\u2019t lose it, even if I have one of my own just a few blocks away. I love this home, and this is more than you deserve for everything you did for me while I was growing up,\u201d Peter gushed as his eyes watered too.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-90030 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/justmetalking.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/7b62f4c36a584288422ce8f8d6708802.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"992\"' height='\"736\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/7b62f4c36a584288422ce8f8d6708802.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald started crying openly, and his son pulled him for a tight hug. They took a tour of the new house which Peter and Sandra had also furnished, although it was more modern now.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Donald couldn\u2019t believe his son had done this, and now he understood why they were always getting home late. He also realized that he shouldn\u2019t have listened to their nosey neighbor, Mary. Clearly, she was wrong.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>What can we learn from this story?\n</b><p><span style='\"font-size:'>One person&rsquo;s journey doesn&rsquo;t have to be yours. Mary told Donald that his son would tire of his presence in his house judging from her own experience, but she was utterly mistaken. Because what happened to her wouldn&rsquo;t necessarily happen to Donald.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Take care of your parents in their old age. Sometimes, placing your parents in a nursing home is inevitable, but take care of them if you can because family is all that matters in this world.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Share this story with your friends. It might brighten their day and inspire them.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</b><p>Donald had to move in with his son Peter after his house burned. But he started to think he was burdening his child because they stayed out late every night. Therefore, the older man decided to move into a nursing home. 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